You get up in the morning, go out to your car to go to work and the tire is flat-- how do you fix it?
Put air in the tire?
Open up a can of Fix-a-flat?
Put the spare tire on your car?
Call your motor club?
Plug your tire?
Wrong, every one of them. While all of those "solutions" might get you rolling again, none of them will fix your tire. The only way you can properly and permanently repair a flat tire is to remove the tire from the rim and patch the hole from the inside.
Put air in the tire and it leaks back out.
Fix-a-flat, while good, eventually leaks as well.
Putting on the spare only leaves you with a flat in the trunk. Next week you'll have 2 flats.
Calling the motor club will only get your spare put on and your flat put in the trunk.
Plugs eventually come out of the tire and are designed only for temporary use.
Now for most of you that means a trip to a tire shop. And while I still know how to do my own tire repair the only tire repairs I do any more are to motorcycle tires as no one other than me touches my motorcycle tires.
You see, there's repairing things and then there's half-ass. And being one of those people who abhor having to do the same job twice it pisses me to no end when I see the City of Greensboro treat symptoms instead of solving actual problems. The Greensboro tire is flat, do we fix it or half-ass it?
